Book by Book Roadmap of the Iliad
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Book 1
Menis, plague, xenia, Agamemnon vs, Achilles, geras, authority, Thetis and Zeus.
Book 2
Zeus’ plan, weak leadership, army test, similes, skeptron, Thersites, catalogue, muses.
Book 3
Paris/Menelaus, teichoskopia, Helen/Aphrodite, weaving, agency/responsibility.
Books 4-5
Battle, sadness of slaughter, Diomedes’ aristeia, divine intervention.
Book 6
Battlefield/Troy, glaucus and Diomedes, Xenia, Hector and family, gender, love/war.
Book 7-8
Hector/Ajax, Achean wall, Zeus’ intervention, Trojan advance
Book 9
Embassy, ate, gifts, time, kleos, friendship, pity, aidos; life, death, compensation.
Book 10
Doloneia, Odysseus/Diomedes, Dolon, Rhesus, contrast with book 9.
Books 11-12
Agamemnon’s aristeia, wall, Hector, Sarpedon’s warrior code.
Books 13-15
Battle tension, gods and human decisions, shifting advantage, Zeus asserts control.
Book 16
Patroclus’ plea, armour, aristeia, Sarpedon, death of Patroclus.
Book 17
Patroclus’ corpse, Menelaus/Ajax, enemy body as commodity.
Book 18
Achilles returns, mourning, Trojan agora, Polydamas/Hector, armour and shield ekphrasis.
Books 19-21
Achilles arms, aristeia, gods return, pursuit of Hector, theomachy.
Book 22
Hector’s death, revenge, contracts and bodies, lament, Andromache
Book 23
Patroclus’ funeral, procession, pyre, lament, games.
Book 24
Priam/Achilles, shared grief, meal, return to social life, pity and care, final laments.